Evaluation of different commercial ELISA methods for the serodiagnosis of systemic candidosis

Mycoses

Volumn 45, Issue 11-12, 2002, Pages 455-460

  Persat, Florence ^a   Topenot, R ^a   Piens, M A ^a   Thiebaut, A ^b   Dannaoui, E ^a   Picot, S ^a  

^a S Parasit Mycol Med/Mal Trop   (France)

^b EDOUARD HERRIOT HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Candidosis; ELISA; Serodiagnosis; Systemic infection

Indexed keywords

CANDIDA ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; CANDIDIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUNTER IMMUNOELECTROPHORESIS; DEVICE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FUNGUS ISOLATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERODIAGNOSIS;

ANTIBODIES, FUNGAL; ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; COUNTERIMMUNOELECTROPHORESIS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; FUNGEMIA; HUMANS; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CANDIDA; FUNGI;

EID: 0036460704     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0507.2002.00775.x     Document Type: Article

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